From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 07:03:35 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Message pools _are_ in use today!
Message-ID: <199607021730.KAA18852@mail.pacifier.com>
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At 08:28 PM 7/1/96 -0700, David Wagner wrote:

>If folks have better ideas for how to achieve really good recipient
>anonymity, I hope they'll speak up!

Once they start offering Internet news/email/USENET feeds (one way) by 
DSS-type dish antenna from satellite, it'll be mighty hard to figure out 
who's receiving the data. They could probably easily provide 10 megabits per 
second, which I assume would be more than enough for what's needed.

(BTW, for a few years a company called "Planet Connect" has been providing 
FIDOnet data feeds, although they use the older-style, large antenna 
systems, and their data rate is 19.2kbps, not even close to enough for 
Internet service.)

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com